ich bin ein auslander

We’ve been keeping pretty awful hours almost the entire week - not getting to sleep until nearly 4 in the morning; not really aware of anything until practically noon. Feeling more than a little whacked at the moment. For most of the week it’s been due to work; at least last night the cause was excess drinking. Woo hoo!

Monday is d-day for the project, so even though this weekend will suck, at least it’ll all be over soon. Spent Thursday night working on yet another side project - Simon’s got a little plan to release a neat CD project consisting of a few short stories set to music. In exchange for being the engineer on the project, I get to write a piece for it alongside some actual, real musicians who have released albums and been paid for it. So Thursday was vocal recording and burning off CDs for the other four tracks, to be distributed to the other artists. Now I’ve gotta write music for my piece…

kick ass.

It’s nothing to write home about, but it’s the first real output from my spanking new studio setup. Needs a shitload of work and I haven’t gotten past the 3 minute mark, hence the _ver1 part of the name. But for anyone that’s interested, here you go.

Bought yet another bookcase and did some spring cleaning today… since I now actually have a real studio setup in my room, I organized all my manuals (now that I need to access them all the time) and threw away tons of old junk to make room for a relatively pleasing and ergonomic environment. Not that I couldn’t use a $4000 studio desk or anything, but this ain’t too shabby.

Anyway, I’ve also signed up for an online electronic music composition workshop and spent part of the day cleaning up a piece… I think I’ll upload it here in a few. It’s alright… not great, but not too shabby either.

Off to dinner with some friends that are moving out of California and back to their homeland… canada, oh canada.

Then probably out to the gym again… and back to the grind. A few projects need to be worked on, and Logic is still calling my name… still dealing with setup issues. Some weird incompatibilities with various bits of gear I have… and more issues just dealing with trying to understand how Logic works. I’ve got tons of plugins and various freebie thing to integrate and I actually need to start using it for real music. La dee da dee da.